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HGBC News "Great Reading", the new HGBC Newsletter is now available! It has been emailed to all HGBC members, but if you did not receive a copy, it can be seen here. The newsletter will be published quarterly, so watch your mailboxes! MFAH Online Book Club. Interested in carrying the enjoyment of your Great Books reading and discussion even further? Extend your discussion in conjunction with related art works through the Online Book Club at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It's easy! Just pick one of the works featured, read and discuss it as usual in your group, then come as a group to the MFAH to continue your discussion. A gallery educator (docent) will accompany you to help facilitate a dialog between the literary artist you have read and several visual artists whose works relate to the book selected. Just go to www.mfah.org/bookclub, then to "Book Club Visits", and fill out the request form. Currently featured offerings are My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk, and Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff. Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk offers a murder mystery set in sixteenth-century Istanbul. When a Sultan commissions a group of talented artists to create a book celebrating his life and times, one of the artists disappears. Are there any clues hidden in the images he created? Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, paints a vivid picture of the luxurious lifestyle of the Queen of the Nile, her twin roles as political leader and goddess, and the nail-biting plots and schemes that defined her world. A Great Books Discussion Group for adults working through an upper level English as a Second Language course meets at Literacy Advance of Houston, 2424 Wilcrest. We meet every Tuesday to express our ideas in English about the work we have read. In this way, we are increasing our knowledge of vocabulary and good writing as well as the relationship of literature to our common life. 30% of Houston adults cannot read. If you can read this, help someone who can't by contacting Frances Leland by email or Literacy Advance of Houston. |
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